MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Answer:
A survey conducted by the CDC in conjunction with the states and territories that is a gauge of health
lifestyles
Question:
2. Biomedical definition of health
Answer:
Focuses solely on an individual's physiological state and the presence or absence of symptoms of sickness
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3. Obeseogenic culture
Answer:
Influences that push people toward health-harming behaviors such as unhealthy eating and absence of a
physically active lifestyle
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4. Health and the Sociological definition of health
Answer:
Absence of disease or physiological malfunction; it is not a positive state, but the absence of a negative
state
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5. Health Behaviors
Answer:
An activity undertaken by a person believing himself or herself to be healthy for the purpose of preventing
health problems (Prevention, detection, promotion, protection)
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6. Health Belief Model (HBM)
Answer:
Provides a paradigm for understanding why some individuals engage in HPBs, while others behave in
knowingly unhealthy ways
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7. Health Locus of Control (HLC)
Answer:
Healthy behaviors are selected by individuals based on the expectations that they will actually lead to
positively valued health outcomes
, Question:
8. Health-Protective Behavior
Answer:
Individual actions taken to protect, promote, or maintain health
Question:
9. Macro-Approach to Health Behavior
Answer:
Broader societal factors that influence health behaviors
Question:
10. Micro-Approach to Health Behavior
Answer:
Factors that influence the individual decisions about health behaviors
Question:
11. Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)
Answer:
Intention or motivation to perform a behavior precedes actual performance of the behavior
Question:
12. Can you define health from both the biological model?
Answer:
Health is the absence of disease or physiological malfunction
- Faulty assumptions: Disease presentation, diagnosis, and treatment is objective, medical professionals
can define health, health should be define in physiological impairment, health is the absence of illness
Question:
13. Can you define health from the sociological model?
Answer:
Capacity to perform tasks and roles
- Includes the individual's perception of his or her own health
- Health is evidenced in positive capacity to perform one's roles
Question:
14. Can you define health from the WHO model?
Answer:
An inclusive approach defining health as a state of complete physical, social, and mental wellbeing
Question:
15. What are the four dimensions of Alonzo's health behavior perspective?
Answer:
1. Prevention: Minimize risk of disease, injury, disability
2. Detection: Medical checks or screenings before symptoms appear
3. Promotion: Encouraging or persuasion for health promoting behaviors
4. Protection: Physical and social environments
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Answer:
A survey conducted by the CDC in conjunction with the states and territories that is a gauge of health
lifestyles
Question:
2. Biomedical definition of health
Answer:
Focuses solely on an individual's physiological state and the presence or absence of symptoms of sickness
Question:
3. Obeseogenic culture
Answer:
Influences that push people toward health-harming behaviors such as unhealthy eating and absence of a
physically active lifestyle
Question:
4. Health and the Sociological definition of health
Answer:
Absence of disease or physiological malfunction; it is not a positive state, but the absence of a negative
state
Question:
5. Health Behaviors
Answer:
An activity undertaken by a person believing himself or herself to be healthy for the purpose of preventing
health problems (Prevention, detection, promotion, protection)
Question:
6. Health Belief Model (HBM)
Answer:
Provides a paradigm for understanding why some individuals engage in HPBs, while others behave in
knowingly unhealthy ways
Question:
7. Health Locus of Control (HLC)
Answer:
Healthy behaviors are selected by individuals based on the expectations that they will actually lead to
positively valued health outcomes
, Question:
8. Health-Protective Behavior
Answer:
Individual actions taken to protect, promote, or maintain health
Question:
9. Macro-Approach to Health Behavior
Answer:
Broader societal factors that influence health behaviors
Question:
10. Micro-Approach to Health Behavior
Answer:
Factors that influence the individual decisions about health behaviors
Question:
11. Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA)
Answer:
Intention or motivation to perform a behavior precedes actual performance of the behavior
Question:
12. Can you define health from both the biological model?
Answer:
Health is the absence of disease or physiological malfunction
- Faulty assumptions: Disease presentation, diagnosis, and treatment is objective, medical professionals
can define health, health should be define in physiological impairment, health is the absence of illness
Question:
13. Can you define health from the sociological model?
Answer:
Capacity to perform tasks and roles
- Includes the individual's perception of his or her own health
- Health is evidenced in positive capacity to perform one's roles
Question:
14. Can you define health from the WHO model?
Answer:
An inclusive approach defining health as a state of complete physical, social, and mental wellbeing
Question:
15. What are the four dimensions of Alonzo's health behavior perspective?
Answer:
1. Prevention: Minimize risk of disease, injury, disability
2. Detection: Medical checks or screenings before symptoms appear
3. Promotion: Encouraging or persuasion for health promoting behaviors
4. Protection: Physical and social environments
